Ray Russell: Fluid Architecture

Ralph Salmins | Mo Foster | Chris Biscoe | George Baldwin | Nic France | Simon Phillips | Ray Russell

Russell has a seven-year itch when it comes to solo recordings. Fluid Architecture follows 2013's excellent Now More Than Ever...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/2020

Horace Tapscott with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Ancestral Echoes – The Covina Sessions

Adele Sebastian | Aubrey Hart | Jesse Sharps | Horace Tapscott | Gary Bias

There has been a growingrecognition of LA legend Horace Tapscott's immense contribution to black culture in the past decade, certainly...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/2020

Orchestre National de Jazz: Dancing in Your Head(s)

Didier Havet | Romain Dayez | Guillaume Roy | Elsa Moatti | Susana Santos Silva | Catherine Delaunay | Christiane Bopp | Stéphan Caracci | Linda Olah | Bruno Ruder

Unlike the UK, the French see jazz as part of the essence of their culture. Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ)...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2020

Albert Ayler: New Grass

Albert Ayler

In 1968, in a valiant attempt to promote his forthcoming ‘music is the healing force of the universe’ message to...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: December/2020

Dayna Stephens: Right Now! The Dayna Stephens Quartet Live At The Village Vanguard

Gregory Hutchinson | Ben Street | Dayna Stephens | Aaron Parks

DownBeat magazine's critics voted Dayna Stephens Rising Star Tenor Saxophonist in 2019, and since the elegantly powerful, Wayne Shorter-inspired American...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/2020

Felix Jay: Trio

Felix Jay

This trio of albums combines 20 years of Felix Jay's ambient explorations into a sprawling soundscape sequence.Byron Wallen's plaintively Milesian...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: December/2020

Hervé Perez: Garden of Secrets

This ambient electroacoustic session, in which multi­instrumentalist Perez mixes up trippy folk and indo-jazz with occasional contemporary beat sensibilities, steers...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2020

Anja Lechner/François Couturier: Lontano

Anja Lechner | François Couturier

‘There is no old or new music,’ says German cellist Anja Lechner, best known for her US classical chart-topping album...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/2020

Jim Rattigan: When

Alison Gordon | James Maddren | Nicholas Barr | Jim Rattigan | Michael Janisch | Julian Tear | Nicholas Cooper | Nikki Iles

Three Worlds Records came into being after the formation of the Guild of Horn Players and their releases so far...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/2020

Elina Duni/Rob Luft: Lost Ships

Rob Luft

On Lost Ships, guitarist Rob Luft makes his ECM debut and vocalist Elina Duni presents a new ensemble – and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020